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Remembering the Lost

Follow @WmRockwoodJuly 10, 2012, 8:36 pm ET by Bill Rockwood and Sarah Moughty

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Below are photographs featured in ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America of some of the many people — artists, writers, activists and ordinary Americans — that we lost far too soon. Click on their name to learn more.

The photographs of Juanita and Marquis are from the book Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS by Billy Howard (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989). In Febuary 1987, Howard began taking pictures of what were then known as Persons With AIDS (PWAs), and he invited each individual he photographed to write an accompanying statement.

We invite you to leave a memory or a tribute to a friend or loved one in the comments below.

Fashion Designer, WilliWear Died April 17, 1987 Age 39 Entertainer, “Queen of Disco” Died Dec. 16, 1988 Age 42 Activist Died March 12, 2002 Age 51 Activist Died Feb. 7, 1999 Age 48 News anchor Died December 20, 1988 Age 49 show/hide letter show/hide letter Writer, activist Died Dec. 27, 1988 Age 34 Dancer, choreographer Died Dec. 1, 1989 Age 58	Willi Smith
	Sylvester
	Belynda Dunn
	Reggie Williams
	Max Robinson
	Joseph Beam
	Alvin Ailey
	Juanita
	Marquis

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